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Maybe there are only so many heartbreaks a team is allowed, so many times they can appear to have a game safely in hand just to be kicked in the gut so hard all they can do is fall to the ground in disbelief. The Dodgers saw their two-run lead evaporate almost as quickly as Zack Greinke left the game Saturday night, this time again via the bat of Matt Carpenter, who drilled a two-run homer off J.P. Howell in the eighth inning. Only this time the Dodgers had their own answer, with Matt Kemp leading off the bottom of the inning with a solo home run into the left-field seats to leave the Dodgers with a desperate 3-2 victory over the Cardinals before a sellout Dodger Stadium crowd of 54,599....

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